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The Proposed Innovation is real-time hardware for image processing, image understanding and machine vision that will achieve significant performance increases over current systems by implementing a set of operations required to support a specific set of algorithms. These algorithms are intended to process and analyze multiple, parallel partial derivative images or "Jet bundles" which provide a fr ...

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While the applications of a three dimensional coordinate measurement system are diverse, such a system will be particularly useful in reporting driver hand position and head movement coordinates. The coordinate information is used to evaluate driver behavior and performance in the new generation of instrumented vehicles where the driver engages in manipulation of specific equipment. Having devel ...

We propose to continue our development of a non-invasive probe of the electrical quality of semiconductor wafers. This technique can be used to screen wafers or to ascertain total impact of specific process steps; it may serve as a routine qualification of some processes. Modern manufacturing technology requires an increasingly detailed statistical summary of the impact of processes on devices. No ...

A substantial effort has been devoted to finding a gamma-ray detector that can achieve a high count rate with high sensitivity and provide good energy resolution while operating at room temperature. Room temperature operation avoids the need for expensive and cumbersome cryogenic technology. This need for cryogenics is especially constraining in the need for portable detectors in remote locations, ...

Materials and Technologies Corp. (M&T) proposes an effort to show feasibility and provide initial characterization of a new method to produce large area SiC-on-insulator (SICOI) compliant substrates for low defect lattice matched wide bandgap semiconductor growth. There is currently no effective approach to fabricate large area, high quality, compliant SiC substrates of the required thickness and ...

Reveo has invented novel thin-film circular polarizer technology that is suitable for harsh space and industrial environments. This technology is based on rotating inorganic birefringent thin films of refractory metal oxides obtained with an innovative variation of conventional vacuum deposition techniques. The polarizers have unprecedented high performance: high operating temperature well above 1 ...

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Laser radar (LADAR) is an emerging technology with the inherent ability to rapidly acquire high resolution range data day or night. Unfortunately current LADAR ranging techniques require an intense, focused beam that is mechanically scanned over a field of view. Mechanical scanning limits the data rate, is weight- and cost-prohibitive for many applications, and can be failure-prone. Scanned range ...

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